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Friction Burns
A screenshot for A Highland Song, with protagonist Moira with climbing up a sheer mountain face while eagles soar around and rain falls. She's saying "just don't look down Moira"

Returning to Rhythm in A Highland Song

By Ruth Cassidy • February 7th, 2024

There’s a lot to learn from falling down mountains.

Mind Palaces
Portrait Of A Young Woman In White By Jacques Louis David

Mostly Normal People

By Maddi Chilton • February 7th, 2024

In the past few years of weird and superficial social media-based media criticism, a character’s relatability (or, used not synonymously but often close to it, likability) is shorthand for how successful they are within their text.

This Mortal Coyle
Fia, a character from Elden Ring, sits on a bed in a dramatic black hooded robe.

Goth Femmes of Elden Ring

By Deirdre Coyle • February 6th, 2024

Ranking Elden Ring’s goth femmes from “least” to “most” goth.

Ninja City: Drug Demon Disco

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • February 5th, 2024

Grab your shuriken, paisans!

I Played It, Like, Twice
A cropped image of the box art for Warhammer Doomseeker with those words in stylized text over a huge and ornate double-bladed ax

Death is Not the End: How to Win and Die Trying in Doomseeker

By Orrin Grey • February 2nd, 2024

This is a game where it actually does pay to die, if you can do it when you mean to.

Self-Insert
A still from Twilight shows Bella Swan surprised the person she's speaking with could even think such a thing. She's too cool for school!

Mary Sue

By Amanda Hudgins • February 2nd, 2024

She is you, a teenager who is stuck in a small town with no friends, with cruel acquaintances who don’t love any of the things that you do, who has been told for years that boys bully you because they like you.

Exploits Feature

Is it Alt to Like Call of Duty These Days?

By Elijah Beahm • February 1st, 2024

Somehow, some Call of Duty games seem to have slipped out of the mainstream…

Past Presence
A screenshot from Coffee Talk showing a pixelated cup of coffee with the words, "Black Lemon. A perfect – if unlikely – combination of sour and bitter."

Romanticize Your Life!

By Dr. Emily Price • January 31st, 2024

If these things are the glue that makes real “mundane” life less boring, they are hollow pleasures.

Beyond Structures
A photo taken by the writer with the band Omnipotent Youth Society on stage in front of dozens of fans and their phones with a textured backdrop behind all the musicians

Clockenflap 2023 Day 2: Atarashii Gakko!, Omnipotent Youth Society and more

By Khee Hoon Chan • January 30th, 2024

After grabbing an exorbitant hotdog from the festival grounds, which I paid around USD25 for, I continued on to some of the day two acts.

Run It Back
A still from Saltburn shows the partially robed main character from behind, gazing outward across the lawn of a large estate scattered with the remnants of a wild party.

Sex and Cinema

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2024

At the same time as a quasi-accepting era which brings us more art focused on marginalized people, a soft Hayes Code re-emerges, allowing for the clean lines of queerness but not the smudges.

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